2005 Impreza 225K miles. Original head gasket.
Pros: original head gasket
Vehicle:
Subaru Impreza
Mileage: 362102 km
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If you can find a clean manual e46 330i that would check all your boxes. They are an absolute delight to drive and rather diy friendly with excellent forum support and well known solutions for the common issues.
Pros: delight to drive, diy friendly
Vehicle:
BMW
It's the head gasket. I replaced the entire cooling system over the course of 2 years. And finally but the bullet to do the had gasket. I was showing no signs of white smoke . And had all of the issues you are having. The mirror so good it will keep running with it , won't even fill the plugs. But I promise you it's the head gasket. You you will be so happy after replacing it.
Pros: happy after replacing
Cons: issues before replacing
Bought a used 2017 Limited at 30k miles. Everything was clean and it ran fine until about 69k but started leaking coolant through the head gasket.
Pros: ran fine until 69k
Cons: leaking coolant
Vehicle:
Jeep
Mileage: 69000 km
BMW with a blown head gasket on the intake side. White smoke is steam not oil. Water pumps go out on these as if they were a dime a dozen. A 2 day job for most mechanics.
Pros: 2 day job
Cons: water pumps go out
Vehicle:
BMW
Had my Honda serviced and fixed through Honda at 44k miles for head gasket and fuel injectors spark plugs and coils
89k miles and she started bucking limp mode flashing check engine I smelled burning coolant and had white smoke from my exhaust not to mention this car is stock and I maintenance it properly through Honda never missed a oil change ect car is driven like a baby.
Driving this morning to the shop was horrendous car kept bucking having misfires wouldn’t go past 38 mph coolant resovoir was halfway but radiator was empty that’s even with me checking it religiously shop called back to confirm they performed a scope and confirmed another head gasket leak of coolant into the heads.
Pros: properly maintained, stock car
Cons: head gasket leak, misfires
Vehicle:
Honda Accord
Mileage: 44000 km
Chev Trax has a wet timing belt and issues with the turbo. I had one as a work vehicle and its head gasket failed right around 30K.
Cons: head gasket failed, turbo issues
Vehicle:
Chevrolet
Mileage: 30000 km
Had 4 Subarus. 3 of them failed - head gaskets of course - the one that did not...lo and behold, was a 6 cylinder! What are the odds? Back at the time I had looked it all up and knew exactly what the situation was.....a defective engine. My vehicles were far enough apart in years and types that I know the defect spanned many more years than initially claimed. I wish my experience was an anecdote. What are the odds, tho....then, that my SIL bought one 7 years later and THAT head gasket went too!
Cons: frequent failures, defective engine
Vehicle:
Subaru
I unfortunately was one of those people who got a bad one.. (2006)
The car of in the repair shop twice a week for misfire codes, doors frozen to the rubber door frame, no cruise control, clutch fluid frozen solid, numerous wheel bearing failure, head-gasket failure, should have bought a Honda accord regret..
Cons: misfire codes, head-gasket failure
Vehicle:
Subaru Legacy
I dumped way too much money into keeping it running and only got about 6000 miles out of it before the headgasket blew and after getting that fixed It went around 600 more miles before it spun a bearing and blew a hole out the side of the block
Cons: headgasket blew, spun bearing
Vehicle:
Honda Civic
Mileage: 6000 km
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